Quote

Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Ancient Roman Military Personnel
Ancient Roman Politician
Ancient Roman Priest
Jurist
Lawyer
Orator
Philosopher
Poet
Political Theorist
Dallas
Texas
Marcus Tullius Cicero
M. Tullii Ciceronis
Marcus Tullius -- Translations into French Cicero
Address
Addresses
Best
Affable
Politeness
Introduction

More quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Image
This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
Live as brave men and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, and wasteth in the winde But love once planted in a perfect and pure minde indureth weale and woe The frownes of fortune, come they never so unkinde, cannot the same overthrowe.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
There is no opinion so stupid that it can't be expressed by some philosopher.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
Wisdom is the only thing which can relieve us from the sway of the passions and the fear of danger, and which can teach us to bear the injuries of fortune itself with moderation, and which shows us all the ways which lead to tranquility and peace.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
True glory strikes root, and even extends itself all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
The aim of justice is to give everyone his due.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
No man was ever great without divine inspiration. [Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance abroad they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
There is no life without friendship
Marcus Tullius Cicero